Hello Cara Had actually seen this - and I gave them some info about her brothers - BUT I hadn't spotted the hospital bit....so she may have been working at the hospital? That's very possible. Especially with the body donation. That's new to me. However as you may have found, there's nothing else online about that.... So a) how to find out any more? and b) Why would she go to Jerusalem after the war? It doesn't seem a good time to be going there, a lot of upheaval just before the establishment of Israel, and she went on a US government ship...... Also I don't know when she came back. The hospital: "Founded in 1917 it was originally a "hospital sanatorium" for the care of "officers or men of His Majesty's Navy and Army"." "The hospital continued to operate for more than 50 years caring for ex-service personnel." Maybe this is a place to start...I have their email address. ----- Original Message ----- From: <irl-dublin-city-request@rootsweb.com> To: <irl-dublin-city@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:00 AM Subject: IRL-DUBLIN-CITY Digest, Vol 7, Issue 83 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Stella DOWSE (alison moyra - BT Total Broadband email account) > 2. Re: Stella DOWSE (Cara) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 06:52:36 +0100 > From: "alison moyra - BT Total Broadband email account" > <alison.moyra@btinternet.com> > Subject: [DUBLIN-CITY] Stella DOWSE > To: <irl-dublin-city@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <AE48144FDE764580852677F97DD0279E@HP1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello there. > I have a new mystery. I found, on 'New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957' in > Ancestry, a record of my father's cousin Stella DOWSE, in 1947, going to > Jerusalem from the US. On the 'Marine Carp' an American government ship at > the time. > Definitely her, as the address and next of kin (Florence Dowse, nee > Andrews) is just visible on the original. > > She was born in 1908 and lived at 5, Ardbrugh Villas, Dalkey, Dublin, all > her life, dying only in 2008 at nearly 100. > We have some vague family stories of her hush WWII work, but then a lot of > things were 'hush' at the time - but what was this trip about? I know very > little about her life or work, she's down as a governess on this record, > but this seems a bit unlikely to both me and my sister. > > - any ideas, anyone? - Alison > > Looking for LITTLE, ANDREWS, MEMERY, BIRMINGHAM/BERMINGHAM in Dublin > - esp. John ANDREWS b about 1820, pawnbroker. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 16:17:18 +1000 > From: "Cara" <cara_links@bigpond.com> > Subject: Re: [DUBLIN-CITY] Stella DOWSE > To: <irl-dublin-city@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <0CE024C8EF5D4371B75C8D618616D18D@ColmTOSH> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > http://notices.irishtimes.com/2410402 > > Will give you her death notice > > > The death has occurred of Stella DOWSE of Leopardstown Park Hospital and > Ardbrugh Villas, Dalkey, Dublin > > Stella donated her body for the purpose of medical science. A Memorial > Service will be held in Holy Trinity Church, Killiney on Sunday next, > April > 13, 2008 at 12 noon. > > > The heading on this suggests perhaps that Stella was with the Hospital is > this so? > > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=78249788 > > Lovely lot of information on the family at this site. > > Cheers > C > > > Date published: Friday, April 11, 2008 > Date of death: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2171 / Virus Database: 2425/4995 - Release Date: 05/12/12 > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-DUBLIN-CITY list administrator, send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-CITY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-DUBLIN-CITY mailing list, send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-CITY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-CITY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRL-DUBLIN-CITY Digest, Vol 7, Issue 83 > **********************************************